Employment psychology

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Identifikator:: 1028407564

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-47263

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Link, Henry Charles; Thorndike, Edward L. http://d-nb.info/gnd/118802127

Title:: Employment psychology

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: MacMillan

Year of publication:: 1924

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 440 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part I. Psychological tests

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190 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY experimenter, an intelligent grasp of the essential char acteristics of the work. Work, for instance, which is characterized by the frequent repetition of the same movements (like the work of operating hand-feed dial machines, inspecting, and assembling) lends itself par ticularly well to the application of tests; for work of this kind presents certain constant and outstanding features which serve as valuable guides in selecting the appro priate tests. On the other hand, the higher we go in the scale of positions, the more intricate and involved are the tasks concerned until it becomes finally impossible for the ordinary layman to comprehend adequately what the fundamental characteristics of a given job are. It is not strange that the psychologist should be unable to grasp the features and details of such positions; for even the occupants of the positions themselves are frequently unable to describe adequately the work which they so successfully perform. One of the pleasant diversions of successful men is to give out, for the benefit of the striv ing youth, public interviews on the nature of their work and the qualities which enabled them to succeed; but the striking feature about these confessions is the inadequacy of the qualities given for the success obtained. Few sophis ticated men, least of all psychologists, attach much im portance or scientific reliability to personal statements of this kind. Such interviews are calculated to inspire the young rather than to afford a comprehensive basis for making a scientific analysis of the factors actually in volved. Therefore, both because of his own inability to understand, and the inability of the highly successful man to describe adequately the essential features of his work, the psychologist is prevented from intelligently applying tests in this field.

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